Delia Felps

Delia Felps serves as a Contract Specialist at the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, where she plays a pivotal role in executing complex acquisitions for advanced naval aviation systems. Her responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle of contract management—from solicitation and evaluation to award and administration—ensuring alignment with Department of the Navy strategic priorities in avionics, electronic warfare, and mission systems sustainment. She primarily handles technical service contracts supporting the integration of next-generation sensor suites, communications architectures, and aircraft subsystems critical to maintaining air superiority and fleet readiness. Felps maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of high-capacity defense contractors, including SABRE SYSTEMS, LLC, THE BOEING COMPANY, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC., and ONTIC ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC. These partnerships reflect her focus on procuring specialized engineering, systems integration, and technical analysis services from established defense industry leaders with proven expertise in naval aviation domains. Her contracting patterns emphasize performance-based, firm-fixed-price, and cost-reimbursement arrangements tailored to high-complexity technical deliverables. While the majority of her acquisitions are unrestricted, Felps demonstrates a deliberate commitment to small business participation, with 25% of her awards directed toward 8(a) competed contracts. This reflects a strategic balance between leveraging large contractor capabilities and fostering innovation through socioeconomically disadvantaged firms, consistent with Department of Defense mandates for inclusive sourcing. Her procurement focus is concentrated in NAICS 541199 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), which accounts for half of her activity, alongside NAICS 511210 (Software Publishers) and 517919 (Other Telecommunications). These codes underscore her specialization in procuring custom software development, systems engineering, cybersecurity support, and communications infrastructure services critical to modernizing airborne mission systems.